A Shark Going Inland Is My Chief: The Island Civilization of Ancient Hawai'i

by Patrick Vinton Kirch

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Tracing the origins of the Hawaiians and other Polynesians back to the shores of the South China Sea, archaeologist Patrick Vinton Kirch follows their voyages of discovery across the Pacific in this fascinating history of Hawaiian culture from about one thousand years ago. Combining more than four decades of his own research with Native Hawaiian oral traditions and the evidence of archaeology, Kirch puts a human face on the gradual rise to power of...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0520303415

ISBN13:9780520303416

Release Date:March 2019

Publisher:University of California Press

Length:368 Pages

Weight:1.10 lbs.

Dimensions:1.1" x 5.9" x 8.9"

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History Oceania Social Science Social Sciences

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